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You can use source material instead of LLMs for all of this.

"Is Bob Geldof's hair blue?" -> Search for Bob Geldof -> Look at images of Bob Geldof.

Intro programming topics can be found at the documentation of the website. Your searching query might be "[programming topic] getting started" and usually if it's a package or a tool there will be documentation. If you want good documentation on web dev stuff that isn't w3schools or geeksforgeeks you can use MDN documentation.

Or, if you really want a general overview there's probably a YouTube video about the topic.

Additionally appending "reddit" to a search will give better results than SEO junk. There are always ways to find quality information via search engines.


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nottorp01/21/2025

> "Is Bob Geldof's hair blue?" -> Search for Bob Geldof -> Look at images of Bob Geldof

Assuming I get images of Bob Geldof. More likely the first page will be pinterest login-required results.

> there's probably a YouTube video about the topic.

Life's too short to watch talking heads about ... you know, WRITING code ...

> can be found at the documentation of the website

Seriously? Maybe for the top 500 npm packages. Not for the more obscure libraries that may have only some doxygen generated list of functions at best.

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